THAT IS SO. It is said that Truth is gold — That is so! That it yields a hundred told; That its champions win the prize Which endures and never dies That is so! It is said that Sin brings pain That is so! That its work is loss, not gdin; That it kills the soul and brings Never balm, but many stings That is so! it is said that Goodness thrives That is so! That it blesses human lives: | That at last, when carth has flown, It shall gain a starry crown That is so! Life is transient at the best That is so! But with Goodness for { ar guost, i Trath shall guide us to the prize { i | That endures and never dies That is so! {Caleb Dunn, in the Ledger. THE STORY OF A BURGLARY. Though I had known George Martin a long time he had only lately initisted me into the mysteries of his life. I knew well that he had been guilty of many kinds of excesses and indiscretions in his youth; nevertheless, I was not a little astonished to hear that he had once sunk so low as burglary. Without further re mark here I relate the chief episode out of the remarkable career of this strange man: “Yes” said he, **1 had a hard time of ft in those days, and finally I became a ~—burglar, When Robert Schmiedlei proposed to me that we should break in to the somewhat retired house of two doctors, Dr, Engler and Dr. Langer, 1 thoughtlessly aggre ed. Both doctors were well known on account of their scienti fic researches, and one of them especially for his eccentri “Well, the ing out of went to work dence, for all favorable for a burglary. It was pitch dark, neither moon nor stars visible . and in addition a strong west wind was blow ing, which was very welcome to us, promised to drown « } slight. “It was toward ing as we, ass by filing through a ladder to placed under ¢ on the left side than five manner, i «dl for the carry arrived the greatest circumstances and wi confi tae WOT minutes lein climbed thr him. After caref tians we ventured then disfovere of lumber room, lod ked. “After pic first to explo floor, thinkin waking the i LA il “To our no lit he loc) rooms on the should run | bitants of wstonisk down door ceived, as we shining } rooms at the “AL first w hasty retreat ered himself and force our way f the build “1 agreeing, + While carefully around I notice floor, a appeared through the door we were approachin and on pointing it out to my companion, he thought it would be some bell, “I replied in a whisper that we should try and avoid any alarm by cutting the wire, and as [ could 1 my hands I would hold it firm while Bchmiedlein cut it between my hands, and thas prevent it jerking back and! ringing the bell. ‘‘ Setting the lantern on the floor I seized the wire, while Schmiedlein drew a pair of pincers out of his pocket. But the moment I touched it I felt a frightful! shock, which quivered through and through me, so that I feil of a heap, tear ing the wire down with me. [remember | hearing the loud ringing of a bell, while | Schmiedlein—whom, moreover. I have | never seen since—disappeared like light- ning into the darkness and esc aped, very likely by the way we had come, “1 “On falling down I struck my head violently against the opposite wall hind became unconscious, whilst the electric | bell—at that time a novelty—rang un-| ceasingly. : i i Regaining my senses I found myself bound and helpless, which, after all, did not surprise me, as I concluded I had been caught where I fell. It soon struck me, | however, that there were some peculiar | circumstances connected with : tivity, ‘I was nearly undressed and lay on a cold slab of slate, which was about the | beight of a table from the ground, and | only a piece of linen protected my body | from immediate contact with the stone, Straight above me hung a large lamp, whose polished reflector spread a bright light far around, and when [I as far as possible looked round I perceived several shelves with bottles, flasks and chemical apparatus of all kinds upon them, Ip one corner of the room stood a complete human skeleton, and various odds and ends of human bodies hung here and | there upon the walls, I then knew I was lying on the operating—or dissecting. table of a doctor, a discovery which natu. rally troubled me greatly: at the same time I perceived that my mouth also was firmly gagged. “What did it all mean? Had some accident befallen me so that a surgical operation was necessary for my recovery? But 1 remembered nothing of the kind, and also felt no pain : nevertheless here 1 lay, stripped and helpless, on this terrible le guaged and bound, which indicated something extraordinary, “It astonished me not a little that there should be such an operation-room in such a house until I remembered that Pr Languer, as the district physician, throwing ¥ x wire whic connected with just reach it with my cap- | $ carry out the post mortem exam- small provincial town no other room was available for such a purpose. 1 felt too miserable, however, to think more about it. But I soon noticed, after another vain effort to free myself, that I was not alone in the room, for I heard the rust ling of paper, and then some one said in quiet, measured tones: “ ‘Yes, Langner, 1 am quite convinced the carrying out of my highly important experiment. How long have I been wish- ing to make the attempt--at last, to night, I shall be able to produce the proof of my theory.’ “ “That would, indeed, be a high triumph of human skill,’ I heard a second voice reply; ‘but consider, dear doctor, if that man there were to expire under our hands—what then? ““ ‘Impossible!’ was the quick reply. is bound to succeed, and even if it the interests of science: while, if we were to let him he would sooner or later fall into the hands of the hangman,’ the WHS gO, two men, doubtless shuddered propos- “1 could not even see their me, and, hearing it, 1 from head to foot. They were ing some dangerous operation on me, not for my benefit, but in the interest of medical science, “At any rate, | thought, ‘they undertake such a thing without sanction.’ And after all, their intention? be something yet conversation ny what, Wis It must the possibility of my should soon know the fearful truth, after a short pause they continued What I wish to prove, dear Langner, is this: blood, and vet such cases occur only too often, while we must the time be in yossession of means to renew this highly ] all fatal result, a few, oases of a man who, son or other, has lost so much blood his death seemed inevitable noble-hearted man had not own blood, in order to the dying man, this pro ecding has effect. | rreat mistake to deprive q for some if some o offered the veins of aware, y desired Console olieague thinking of taking undertake with fet repeat my insin isert the warm bile have alrea i f my theory is right, the sation the will then gradu gase in strength and rapidity, ime it is important to pt tect his which to his veins, as we arrang heart re same 1 limbs from cold and stiffness, lly take place with the loss tood.* conversation of me with deadly terror i could scarcely believe | was really awake and not the victim of some cruel night mare, “The fact remained, however, that 1 lay helpless on the dissecting table, that a threatening skeleton stood in the corner of the room and, above all, that terrible conversation which silence filled me with a fear such as I had Involuntarily the thought forced itself upon me that i overwhelmed tors, to whose mad theory I should here fall the victim. a sound mind would WG DOES : i Proj frightful and murderous experiment upon into face: then smiling, took off their coats and tacked up their sleeves, | sir, led to get free, as only a de aperate man under such extraordinary circum In vain, Their long acquired experience knew hew to render me completely helpless, to their satisfaction, I could not even make a sound. me a lancet, with which he returned to me. my limbs, I was able to watch the doctor busied with his preparations, “Directly after removing the cloth | that he had opened the principal vein would have sufficed to shake the strong- est nerves, “ “There is no danger,’ said Dr. Eng- ler, looking into my staring, protruding eyes with terrible calmness. ‘You will not die, my good man, 1 have only opened an artery and you will experience ‘all the sensations of bleeding to death, You will get weaker and weaker, and finally, perhaps, lose all consciousness, but we shall not let you die. No, no! You must live and astonish the scientific world through my great discovery!’ “1 naturally could say nothing in reply, and no words can adequately ex- press what I felt at that moment, | could in one breath have wept, implored, cursed #nd raved, “Meanwhile I felt my life's blood flow. ing, und could bear it drop into a vessel standing under the end of the table. Every moment the doctor Inid his hand on my heart, at the same time making remarks which only increased my horror. “After he had put his hand on me gor at least the twentieth time, and felt the beating of the heart, he said to his assist ant: “ ‘Are you ready with your prepara tions, Langner? He has now lost zp enormous quantity of blood, and the pul- sation is getting weaker and weaker. See, he is already losing consciousness,’ and with these words he took the gag out of my mouth, “A feeling’ of deadly weakness as well as of infinite misery laid hold of me when the physician uttered these words, and on my attempting to speak, I found that scarcely n whispering murmur passed my lips. Shadowy phantoms and strange colors flitted before my eyes, and I bx lieved myself to be already in a state past all human aid. “What happened in the next few min utes I do not know, for I had fainted, When I reopened my eyes 1 noticed I no longer lay on the table, but was sitting in an armchair in a comforta room, near which stood the two doctors looking at me, “Near me was a flask of wine, smelling salts, a few basins of cold water, It two dissecting i. 1 hie several some sponges and a galvanic battery. was now bright daylight and the ‘When I remembered the terrible ex periment, I shuddered with horror, and rise, I felt too weak, however, and sank back helpless hen the circuit physician, in address d ‘“ {Compose yourself, young man. 3} bleeding into the chair. a frien: me: ota slowly to 5 a single drop of imagined Were death: You v assured that you blood. You no operation whatever, but have simply been the vid tim of your We knew very of our «1 \ ion which was only much maintained nevertheless, will you heard every woed nyersa tion, A convers yOu ns What | will was man's body always completely thi 15 : ils wh IN inti what I § experimen I wa I do not hand, we are quite cCompensat ave suffered.’ Under George Martin, pt their proposal not to this day {i the circumsian 80 treating me ‘The doctors kept their promi 1 i They mage me 8 very hand some pre sent, and troubled themselves about me in #0 that since that time I have been fortunate, and I hope. a better man. Still I have never forgotten the hour when 1 lay on the dissecting table the unexpected victim of a terrible ex periment-—in the interests of science, as Dr. Engler explained.’ Such was the strange story of my friend, His death, which recently took place, re- lieved me from the promise of BECTOCY given to him about an event which he WATS, without a feeling of una bated horror, ——[ Strand Magazine, Queer Crabs, The administrative report of the Ma. rine Survey of India for the official year 1801-92 has been published. Among the animals Dr. Alcock has specially ob- served is the red ocypode crab, which swarms on all the sandy shores of India. oothed ridge, and on one of the basal When the “palm” is so folded against the base of the the first ridge can be worked across the second, like a bow across a fiddle, only in this case the bow is sev larger than the fiddle. Dr. concludes that the use of the stridulating organ appears to be that a crab, when it has entered its burrow, may be able, by the utterance of warning notes, to prevent other crabs from crowd- ing in on top of it. [New York Post. Most Valuable of Insects, There is no insect that approaches the silkworm in the total commercial value of its products, the manufacture of which gives employment, according to the latest census returns, to nearly sixty-four thou. sand persons in the United Kingdom alone, to say nothing of France, Italy, and the far East. But in actual market value, Jot pound weight, the cochineal insect is far ahead of any other, though its price is fluctuating and has greatly decreased since the com ively recent discovery of so many much cheaper subs stitutes for the dyes obtained from it, Rox 4 the i Sou Sotaes the cantha. insect, w tant make it so valuable 5 the et of blisters, | Yankee Blade, REV. DR. TALMACE The Fminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun. day Sermon, Bubject: “ How to Voiuw® Ton. that wughtv city, for in one hour is thy judgment come Revelation xviii., 10. Madern scientists are doing a splendid work in excavting the tomb of a dead em- pire holding in its arms a dead city -—moth - er and child of the same name, Babylon. The ancient mound invites the spades and shovels and crowbars while the unwashed natives look on with surprise, These scien- tists find yellow bricks still impressed with the name Nebuchadnezzar, and they go down into the sarcophazus of a monarchy buried more than two thousand vears ago, May the explorations of Rawlinson and Lavy- ard and Chevalier and Opoerto and [Lotus and Chesney be eclipsed by the present archmological uncovering ! But is it possible this is all that remains of Babylon-—a city once five times larger than London apd twelve times larger than New York? Walls three hundred and sev- entv-thres feet high and ninety-three feet thick, Twentv-five burnished gates each wide, with streets running through to correspandineg gates on the other side. Bix hundred and twenty-five squares More pomp and wealth and splendor and sin than could be found in any five modern cities combined, A city of pal aces and temples, A rity bavinr within it a garden on an artificial hill four bun dred feet high, the sides of the mountain terraced All this built to keep the king's wife, Amytis from becoming homesick for the mountainous region in whe had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Ea phrates spouted up to irrizate this altitude into fruitc and flowers and arbo rescence unimaginable, A great river run ning from north to south clear through the city. bridges over it, tunnels under it, boats on it A city of bazaars and market places, un- rivaled for aromatics and unguents, and high mettied horses with grooms by their side, and thyme wood, and African ever green, and Egyptian linen, and all styles of costly textile fabric, and rarest purples ex- tracted from shelitish on the Mediterranean const, and rarest scariets taken from bril lant insects in Spain, and ivories brought from successful elephant hunts in India, and diamonds whose flash was a repartes to the sun, Fortress within fortress, ombat- tiement riking above embattiement eapit of the ages, night, while honest asleep, but all the salo were in foil blast, and at they had filled the tanka: time, and reeling and guffaw coughing around the rulers of the land, General his besieging army to tage sondes, and they diverted the riv usual channel Into ano i that the forsaken bed o the path on which the tered. When the Ors were innsic lon bad len, and on which great (sreat But one is Ww sstyraaiia WEL le ore § tne is Lie Len and hi gtate Ls Rifle a ther henos Alas, alas tha mighty city, Bat do 3 reat mortality am monarchies and rep 8. Theyare like aividuals in the fact that they ars bora; bave a middle life; they have a de have 2 cradle and a grave, 8 are scaassinated, some own hand inc " Lal ne fine | me destroved Lat me call the roi} the dead civilizations and some of th cities and let some one answer for the Egyptian civilization, stand up answer the ruins of Karnak and Luxor from seventy pyramids on the east sid the Nile there comes up a great chorus ing, “Dead, dead!” Awmyri Empire up and soswer, “Dead! ory ths ruins of Nineveh, After six bundre magnificent opportunity, dead itish kingdom, stand ug After t dred and ity years of d and of miraculous vicies sta of , Sand up a the aiphgbet world, apd sending out haut vans in one direction to saatral Asis, ani ng out her navigators to the Atlant n in another direction, dead Piliars of Hercules and rocis on the Tyrian fisherman dried their nets answer, "Dead Phonics Athenee, Phidiae, after Demosthenes, after Miitiades, dead. Sparts, after Leonidas, after Eari- blades, alter Salamis, after Thermopyle dead. Roman empire, stand up ani j uiwar ~egapire once bounded by the British Chan nel on the north, by the Euphrates on east, by the great Sahara desert in Africa on the south, by the Atlantic Ocsan on the west: bome of three great civilizations owning ali the then discovered word that was worth owning Roman empire answer Gibbon in his Ris» and Fall of the Roman Empire” saye, “Dead” and the forsaken seats of the ruined Coliseum, and the skele- ton of the aqueducts, anid the miasna of the Campagna, and the iragzments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge Trivmpbatis, and the Mamertine prison, bolding no more apostolic prisoners, and the silent Forum and Basilica of Constantine, and the arch of Titus, and the Pantheon come in with great chorus erying, “Dead, dead.’ After Horace, after Vargil after Tacitus, after Cicero—dead, After Horatius on the bridge, and Cincinnatus, the farmer oli garch, after Pompey, after Beipio, after Cassdug, after Constantine, after (maar dead. The war eagle of Rome flow so high ver hi which a i after the desolation and darkness built its nest in the eyrie. Mexican empire—dead, French empire dead, You ree, my frionds, it j& no unusual thing for a government ic perish, and in the same necrology of dead Nations and in the same graveyard of expired governments will go the United States of America unless there be some potent voice to call a halt, and unless God in His mercy inter. sentiment a widespread public Christian This nation the catastrophe be averted. of suffrage, and 1 propose to set betore you the evils that threatens to annihilate American institutions, and if God will help me I will show you before | get through the wmode in which each and every one may do something to arrest that And 1 shall plow up the whois fleld, The first evil that threatens the annibila. tion of our Ametican institutions is the fact that political bribery, which once was con sidered a crime, has by many coms to be considered a tolerable v rtue. Toers is a Jogitimate uss of money in elections, in the printing of political tracts, and in the hiring of pubiic bails, and in the obtaining ol cam- paign oratory, but is there any homunculias who su bs that this vast amount of money now i raised by the political pardies is going in a legitimate direction? Tae vast majority of it will go to buy votes. unureds and thousands of mea will have sot before them so much money for a Re tio vote, and the superior financial inducement will decide the action. You want to know which party will carry the doubtful States day after tomorrows? | will tell you, party that spends the most money. This moment, while 1 speak, goid from Wall street, She Fiadie ia ps 1 h from State street, lnturs and many other public officials in The Governor of the State at that time received $060,000 for his sions ture, His private secretary receivad $5000, Thirteen members of the Benate veceival $175,000 among them in bonds, Sixty members of the other house received from £5000 to £10,000 each, The Lieutensnt-Gov - arnor received £10,000, The clerks of the house received from $5090 to R10.000 each, The hank comptroller received £10,000, Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were divided among the lobbyists, You ses the railroad company was very generous But all that was hidden, ani only throueh the severest scrutiny on the part of a legis. lative committos was this iniquity displayed. Now political bribery defies vou, dares you, is arrogent, and will probably decide the election next Tuesday. Unless this diabolism ceases in this coun- try Barthold{'s statue on Ballos's Island, with uplifted torch to light other Nations into the harbor, had better be changed ant the torch dropped as a symbol of universal incendiarism. Unless this purchas and sale of suffrage shall conse the American Goverament will expire, and you might as well be getting ready the monument for another desd Na tion and Jet my text inscribe noon it these words, “Alas, alas, for Babylon, that great city, that mighty city, for in one har is thy judgment come” My friends, if have not noticed that political bribery is one of the ghastly crimes of this day, you have not kept your eyes open : Another evil threatening the destractinn institutions is the of the sections against each other A solid porth A solid Bouth if this goes on we shall after a while have a solid East against an solid West: we shall have solid Middie Biates against solid Northern States: we have a solid New York against a solid Pennseyivania, and a solid Ohio against a solid Kentucky. It 48 twenty-seven vears since the warcloud, and vet at every Presidential election the old antagonism aroused, When Garfleld died and all the States gathered around his casket in sym. pathy and in tears, and as hearty telegrams of confidences came from New Orleans and Charleston as from Boston and Chicago, 1 said to myself, **{ think sectionalism dead.” But, alas, no! The difficulty wii never be ended until each Btate of the Na- tion is split up into two or thres great po- litieal parties. This country cannot exist unless it exists one body, the National Capital heart, sending out through all the arteries of communication warmth aad life to the very extramities. This Nation cannot exist une one family, and you might as well have solid brothers against solid sisters, and a solid bread tray against a solid cradle, and a solid nursery against a solid dining room, and you might as well have solid eary against solid eyes, and solid head against solid foot. What is the inter ast of Georgia is the interest of Massachn- setts: what is the joter of New York is the th Carolina, River change its politics fr you solidifying is wi interest of 8 when it w Louisville? Itis not possible for nal antagonisms to real many years wilt permanent und fracture AT continu» ® ¥ 5 ther evil threatening the destruction merioan institutions is the low state Morais What led Phoe ¢ ywn depravity, Grunenners and troved A Ime u the low stats of p : “a r attention to the fact that ma for in t times are entirely unfit have Den WORE offices different r the postions for which they minated, They bave no more qu than a wolf has qualificatio of pastoral theology in a flocs of sheep, a blind mole has qualification 10 lectures a ol if eagies on optics, or 1 8 vYaiture has jove. The mere ion of some of their names makes acid and fumigation right prosunciat a demand for carbolic Yet Christian men will {oliow litical standards, ave to tell you what you know already, American pe iitics have sunken to such Jow that nothing we $e ia some directions we all directions. The pe knavery huried to the sur of banks and bux. specimens of great C that under depth there is be Waat nearly and the s by the explosion we firms are only maxis and Stromoolis of wie i and roar and surge rgitated to the i n descended Democratic Party ens the Tweed rascality it seemed to ev arything. but after awhile the heaven descended Republican Party outwittel pan- demonium with the star route infamy. My friends, wo haven this country people who say the marriage institution amounts to nothing. They scoff at it We have PHO walking in polite pariors in our Say who are not good encuzh to be scavengers in Sodom! I went over to San Francisco tea or fifteen years ago--that beautiful city, that queen of the Pacific. May the blessing f Goi come down upon ber great churcaes and ber noble men and women! When I got into the city of San Fravcisco the Mayor of the city and the President of the Board of Health called on me and insistad that [ go and see the Chinese quarter, no doubt so that on my return to the Atiantic coast | might tell what dreadfu! people the Chines: ara, But on the last night of my stay in San Francisco, before thousands of people in their great opera house, I said, “Would you Url kadness bensath, but have surface, When the tad eT t reg av | They said, “Yes, yes yes™ 1 mid ‘Do you think you can stand it 201” They said, “Yes yes, yes™ “Then” I said, “my opinion is that the curse of San Francisco is not your Chines quarter, but your millionaire liber. tines ™ And two of them sat right before me Felix and Drasilia. And #0 it is in all the cities. I never swear, but when | see a man go uuwhipped of justic., laughing over his lantry and pecoadilio, 1 am Tempted to burl red bot anathe na and to conclude that if according to some people's theology, there is no bell, there ought to be! There is enou zh out an {| out licentionsnoes in American cities to-day to bring dowa upon them the wrath of that Goa whe, on toe 24th of August, 79, buried Herculaneun and Pompeii so deep in as ‘es that the eight ren hundred and thirteen subsequent years have not been able to complete exnumation There are in some of tae American cities to day whole blocks of houses which the au- purchase they are silencsd by hush moaey, defense of government as pubide libraries These ulcers on the body politic bleed an public authority in many of the cities looks You oannot cure such wounds as these with a silken bandage. deep in the lancet of moral sursery, and burning them out with the caustic of hoy wrath, and with most decisive amputation abominations. As the Homans were alter the Ueits, and as the Normans wers a ter the Britons, so thers are evils after this ship of war; but it is no superstition waen | that the history of many of When 1 see the cheatery and wantonness and the manifold crime of this country ate tempting to commit patricide—yoes, matris eide—anon our institutions, it seems to me that lips that heretofore have been dumb ought to break the silences with canorous tones of flery protest, I want to put all of the matter befors you, so that every honest man and woman | will know just how matters stand, and what they ought to do if they vote, and what they ought to do if they pray. This Nation is not eoine to perish. Alexander, whan he heard of the wealth of the Indies, divided Macedonia among his soldiers, Home one asked him what he bad kept for himself, and he replied, 1 am keeping hone” And that jewel 1 keep bright and shining in mv soul, whatever else | shall) surrender. Hope thou in God, He will set back these oceanic tides of moral devasta~ tion. Do you know what is tig prizs for which contention is made to-day’ 1b is the prize of this continent. Never since, according to John Milton, when “satan was hurled headlong flami from the ethereal skies in bidecus ruin as combustion down,” have the powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as they now ars What a jews | it isa jowel carved in relief, the cameo of | this planet! On one sides of us the Atlantic | Ocean, dividing us from the wornout Gove | ernments of Furog (in the other side the | Pacific Ocean, dividing us from the super. | stitions of Asin. On the north us the Arctic Bea, which is the gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators develop their jooursge. A continent 10.50) miles long, { 17,000,000 squars miles, and all of it bus | about one-seventh capable of rica cultiva. ¥ a | tion, {| One hundred millioas of population on | this cmtinent of North and South Americy— i ons hundred millions and room for many | hundred millions more. Al flora, and all. | fauna, all metals, and precious woods, and all grains and all its. The Appae { laghian range the backbone and the rivers { the ganglia, carrying life through and { out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien the narrow waist of a giant continent, { all to be under one governm . and all free, i and all Christian, and the soens of Christ's | personal reign on earth i rding to the i expectation of any people, » shall at last { set up His throne in this world, i Who shall have this hemisphere? {or satan® Who shall have { her inland seas, the silver Christ the shore of of her Nevadas, ! the gold of her Colorados. the telescopes of her observatories, the brain of her universi- | tiés, the wheat of her prairies, the rics of her | savannahs, the two great ovsan beaches, he ons reaching from Baffin's Bay to Ferra del Foego, and from Behring Btraita to Cape Horn—and all ithe moral and temporal and spritual and everlasting interests of a population | vast beyond all computation save by Him { with whom a thousand years ars as one day? | Who shall have the hamisphe You and I will decide that, ] side it, by con- scienlious vole, by earnest prayer, by main- tenance of Christian institutions, by support of great philanth: wy putting vody, mind and soul on the right side of all moral, religious and National movements Ab, it will not be jong be! ke any differsuce to yoo i nes of this continent comiort is concerned Ail we will want of it will be seven fest by threes, snd that will take in the largest, and theres will be room and to spare. That is all of this country we will need very soon, th angeast of us, But we have an anxiety al the welfare and the happiness of generations that are coming oo, and it will be a grand thing if, when the archangei’s trumpet sounds we find that our sepulcher, the one r Christ, Arimathea pro that time in the midet of a garden. ise or all dry “hoe we commit the other ar to Ge op ies, will not me what earthly #0 6 {hae ' Josens of his country will be all pa iogas, Eternal God, to be destiny ol this peonie ral T 1 it t | —— - Clespatra’s Needle, i leopatra’s Needles” is a The name “C ! double misnomer; for, first, they bear no and, second, resemblance a needle, | Cleopatra bad nothing do with their ‘erection and in all probabilities never History tells us that the un- {fortunate had been dead seven years when the two obelisks which bear ier name were taken to the great capi- The story of Cleopatra's Needles is and fall of many mighty Em- pires; it takes us back the time of Joseph, Moses and the Bible Pharaohs, and then follows the winding thread of time down the ages for more than 3400 years! It was time of the to 0 saw Liem. q Geen » rise to in the reign of Taothmes I11.—1500 years B. | C.—that these two gigantic columas of | hard granite were hewn from tue solid | strata ot the blufl at Syene, in Southern Ezpyt. First they were transported down the Nile fcr a distance of 500 | miles and set up in ancient Heliopolis { “The City of the Sun.” After standing as grim sentinels before that marvelous | piece of architectural splendor, the | “Temple of the Sun,” for a fall 1500 years, they were taken down and re. moved to Alexandria, This time they were stationed in front of “‘Cesar’s Tem. | ple” and stood for almost a full 2000 | years in oue position before they were again molested. At the time they were | placed before Cmiar's Temple a bronze {tablet was cast in commemoration of | wnat was really a triumph of engineering | and architectural skill. This tablet, af- tor a lapse of 2000 years, was found at | the base of one of the obelsiks, It bore this inscription in both Greek and Latin: { “In the eighth wear of Augustus | Caesar, Barbarus, Prefect of Egypt, caused these obelisks to be placed here. | Pontius being architect.” | Again, within the last score of years, they have been disturbed for a third | time, and at last separated, one being | taken to London and the other brought | to this side of the Atlantic and set up in { Central Park, New York City.—3t ! Lous Republic. hI A AAA, Possibilities of Sea Farming. A study of the phenomena of marine | life, writes George W. Field, shows that the water as well as the land, through cuitivation, is capable of producing a greatly increased food supply for man. The necessity of cultivating the marine resources is even now apparent, and many Governments have already begun to cope with the questicn by the establishment of commissions of fisheries, Of these commissions that of the United States stands in the front rank by virtue of 1a positive results, But in the near future individual attention must be turoed to i
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